2 Maccabees 15:23-25

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²³ So now, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel to spread terror and trembling before us. ²⁴ By the might of your arm may these blasphemers who come against your holy people be struck down.’ With these words he ended his prayer.

²⁵ Nicanor and his troops advanced with trumpets and battle-songs,